reassign 410596 lowmem thanks On Tue, Feb 20, 2007 at 10:14:33AM +0100, Frans Pop wrote:5~ > On Monday 19 February 2007 19:11, Pablo Ripolles wrote: > > as i said, i had tried all possibilities, i excluded all the > > unnecessary modules. in fact, to "Detect and mount the CD-ROM" (stage > > in which d-i allows to un/select all the unnecessary kernel modules) > > there are no necessary modules, it doesn't need a module to detect and > > mount the CD successfully. therefore i did tried the lightest possible > > configuration too.
> Please provide us with the following data: > - do you get a dialog saying the installer is entering low memory mode? > - what languages are offered in the first dialog (language selection)? > - if you switch to VT2 at that point (or use the "start a shell" option > in the main menu), what is the output of: > - grep ^MemTotal: /proc/meminfo > - grep ^MemFree: /proc/meminfo Ok, tweaking lowmem, I've tried a boot with mem=52000000. (With mem=51000000, the system memory bottoms out during hardware detection.) # grep ^MemTotal /proc/meminfo MemTotal: 40392 kB I then choose these installer components: ext3-modules ide-core-modules ide-modules partman-auto partman-ext3 I'm assuming this is a good minimal test, since the IDE modules udebs are smaller than the SCSI modules udebs by far. I don't have a disk that I can spare for an autopartition test, so I stop after the components are loaded and use your 10MB free estimate instead -- we have 13072kB free at this stage, which sounds good to me. So that seems to give a theoretical min of 39MB. Similar testing seems to give a level2 limit of 55MB. Less than that in level1 has the installer bottoming out in hardware detection again, more than that gives around 17MB free at the start of autopartitioning. And for level1, a test with 81MB again OOMs during hardware detection; a test with 82MB gets all the way to starting partman, and has 5MB free at the first menu. I'm not sure if the 10MB limit applies to how much memory is needed to run partman as a whole, or how much memory is needed after starting partman? Anyway, I've set the level1 limit to 82 for now. Does this all sound sane? Would it be ok for me to upload this? -- Steve Langasek Give me a lever long enough and a Free OS Debian Developer to set it on, and I can move the world. [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.debian.org/ -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
